Went through and handily beat FF II for the first time. I'd always heard how terrible it was, but it's just...different. Well worth the play through. Had some interesting dynamics and I don't regret it one bit.

Now I need to figure out whether I want to get on with platinuming FF LR or beat Trails in the Sky, or Radiant Historia. 2014 completion list:

You're probably wondering what that Wakedas thing is, well, it's this nice little puzzle game I found in the 3Ds eShop. Since I ran out of Picross games I wanted to try something a little different and Wakedas turned out to be a good choice. It's like a 2D version of a Rubik's Cube. It starts out fairly simple with 3x3 puzzles, then moves on to 4x4 and later 5x5 while keeping things fresh with special blocks that have multiple colours and/or rotate when moved/can't be moved. The game is very cheap (and even goes on sale sometimes) so it won't cost you much more than a decent game from the appstore.

1. Kirby's Return to Dreamland - I'll never outgrow kirby. The games are (somewhat) easy and the gameplay is so basic it could be considered offensive, but there's nothing more relaxing and this is no exception.

2. Eternal Sonata - Probably shouldn't even by on my list because I've beaten it before, but I didn't remember much about it. Love it to death still, stupid plot and broken characters (*cough*Serenade*cough*) too.

3. Bejeweled 3 (all badges and cheevos) - It's Bejeweled. I happen to like the game, and the different game modes in this one were all awesome in their own way.

4. Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded - I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The game was certainly bad, but it wasn't the unplayable mess that people seemed to make it out to be.

5. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - I've said a lot about this in other areas of the forum, but I'll reiterate that I found the game needlessly difficult, was not at all happy with the 'stat increases as quest rewards" system, and thought the very end was pretty dumb. Yet I found the game pretty good despite all of that.

6. inFamous - I really love the story of this game. I feel like if one game could get a good movie (IN THE RIGHT HANDS) it would be this one. Plenty of good, well-developed characters and villains, a mind-bending plot twist, and just the right amount of content to reduce it down to 2 hours without losing much of anything. Although I guess it would just be Chronicle.

7. Tales of Xillia - Again, I've already said a lot about my feelings on this one in the Tales thread. I would like to reiterate that by the end I realized I didn't dislike it as much as when I first started playing it.

Totally agree with you about the first Infamous Klutz! Still my favorite of the series because of that mind bending plot twist you mentioned. I remember my jaw dropping when I beat it the first time. The quality of those games has actually gone down each installment honestly.

It probably speaks to my tastes and preferences to say this, but I thought that inFamous 2 was much better than the first one (which was also really good). The more textured city, the more diverse, interesting powers, the improvements to fast-travel systems, and the increased variety of enemies put it way over the top for me. And hey, I thought the story in inFamous 2 is really good! The twist with The Beast was a little out there, but Zeke really came into his own as the most interesting character in the whole series. Whether you go for the good or evil endings.

As to making commentary on this thread... I'm good. Every time I beat a game I write a review on my blog and then add to the list here. I'll just keep doing that.

InFamous 2 was also really good I agree. There's definitely improvements gameplay wise all over the place, but I just preferred the first one slightly. The story to both are great. Second Son was a little repetitive and short and the story wasn't as good as the others.

Went through and handily beat FF II for the first time. I'd always heard how terrible it was, but it's just...different. Well worth the play through. Had some interesting dynamics and I don't regret it one bit.

Now I need to figure out whether I want to get on with platinuming FF LR or beat Trails in the Sky, or Radiant Historia. 2014 completion list:

So I'll weigh in a bit more on how I felt about the games I beat this year.

FFXIII-2 - To be honest, I bought it on release day, and never played it until about a month before Lightning Returns came out. I felt it fixed a lot of the issues with XIII (but I am in the minority camp that actually likes XIII). The characters grew on me, and I thoroughly enjoyed the ending. The fights were a blast, and it the game was pretty straight forward.

LR FFXII - I'll come out and say it, I love this game and what it did. I totally dig Lightning's character, and while I get the complaints about the "time limit", I thought that if you felt there wasn't enough time, then the game design had its intended effect. I had an absolute blast with the combat system, and while I felt customization was there for customization sake, you more or less relied on only a handful of schemata. Overall, I felt it was an appropriate cap on the XIII trilogy and tied mostly everything up quite nicely.

Dead Nation: Apocalypse edition - Played couch co-op with my brother and it was a nice little way to pass the time. Played on the hard setting, and genuinely had fun as it was a challenge. My only grip is that it has trophy glitches if you aren't going to play it all in one sitting. I missed out on a number of trophies that way for sure.

Diablo 3 ROS - Felt like what Diablo 3 should have been. It is what it is.

Final Fantasy II - Played the PSP edition. I've never really given this game a real shot, but after catching a few minutes on twitch, it had its hooks into me. Blasted through this game, and had a genuine good time with it. A lot of the things it did, or tried to do don't seem to far out of place with modern game design, and the PSP version cleaned up a lot of the issues the original NES version had (or so I'm told). Great game, and it definitely took me by surprise.

Finally got the platinum for FFX HD after 127 hours. It got exhausting after awhile grinding to finish off all of the characters sphere grids, but obviously I loved it to death. Everything I wanted in an HD update, minus being able to skip scenes.